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Cartoonist’s Take: October 12, 2026
Q. I read your column faithfully each week. Recently, you mentioned the battery jump packs you keep in your vehicles for emergencies. My battery...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 11, 2026
Many clients arrive to therapy with the mantra: “I just want to understand my anxiety/my trauma/my procrastination.” And then add, “I want to...
I had been holding open the refrigerator door long enough to make it antsy. I could almost hear my mother’s disapproval over the icebox’s sound of...
“When leaders neglect lived experience, the message collapses,” wrote former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in The New York Times....
By Hon. Joanne Dittes Yepsen Regardless of party, New Yorkers care deeply about leaving a better state for the next generation – securing a...
By Nancy C. Nissen, Esq. A prenuptial agreement is a contract signed by a couple before the marriage ceremony occurs. So, while you cannot sign a...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 10, 2026
When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those most likely to switch parties is North Carolina,...
More than five years have passed since January 6, 2021, a date forever linked with one of the most divisive moments in modern American history. While...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 9, 2026
The sordid issue of rape has reared its sadistic presence again in the wake of the Cornell 7 assaults. Seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at the...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 8, 2026
Cartoonist’s Take: October 7, 2026
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is one of those men who pride themselves on supporting women. That is a good thing. My father was my biggest booster...
It’s easy to imagine how James Madison would’ve felt about a MAGA Missouri meathead like Eric Schmitt. As the prime architect of our Constitution,...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 6, 2026
More high schools across America are requiring students to pass the U.S. citizenship test to receive their diploma. This fall Iowa began giving its...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... "Congressional insider trading practices" by Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons. "Trump depression remark...
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s sobering and provocative column in The New York Times Magazine — where she agonized over the decision to send her daughter...
By October, some families discover that homework apparently requires two people: a child to avoid it and a parent to remain concerned about it. You...
Q. I have a 2018 Subaru Outback with 172,000 miles. Lately, whenever I turn the steering wheel sharp while parking at low speeds, I hear a clicking...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 4, 2026
Especially for those who partake in the communal culture of running. Colors blaze as the heat subsides. We get to mix long sleeves with short pants...
As the temperatures begin to fall across the Capital Region, furnaces will soon be running longer, lights will be on earlier and families will once...
The leaves are changing and people soon will be turning their thermostats up to heat their homes as the crisp fall air begins to turn colder....
Cartoonist’s Take: October 3, 2026
For more than 50 years, voters of faith have aligned strongly with the Republican Party. In the last election, white evangelical Christians accounted...
This has been the week that a deep sense of pessimism about the upcoming midterm elections set in among Republicans around the country. Not just the...
Sometimes a political or environmental fight begins not in a courtroom or a government office, but across a fence line. And sometimes the hero...
Cartoonist’s Take: October 2, 2026
Cartoonist’s Take: October 1, 2026
Michael Desronvil, the lone Black juror who prohibited 11 others from absolving Lindsay Clancy of criminal responsibility in the death of her three...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 26, 2026
Historic preservation looks very different in Saratoga Springs than it does in the rest of the Capital District. Both places have deep architectural...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 25, 2026
Goofy, bizarre, unhinged, and politically surreal. The recent Republican midterm convention, held in Dallas, was nothing short of a misfire by any...
Cartoonist’s Take: September 24, 2026
In two states where school-choice vouchers are available, many parents are choosing Catholic schools. After my own Catholic school experience, I think...